Darin ~ Final

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Drawing tools: Pen tool, poly/star, brush tool, spray brush, fill bucket, I used the Bezier to pull things. I used the rectangle and the oval tools.

Kuler:

I used more bitmaps traced and hand picked colors. I’m not into the Kuler colors so much yet. I know how to use the color schemes but they don’t work for my projects yet.

Tweens:

I applied classic tweens on my 3 waves. Alpha on the waves 84%, 85% 87% there is easing of simple slow. They are all movie clips. The sun is a motion tween.

In the Motion Editor I selected the advanced color and used the percentages from the top when the sun moves down to the end. When the sun is set it is set to red; 100%, red offset 66.9%, green 69.4%, green offset -41%, blue-50%, blue offset -8%, alpha 100%, alpha offset 116%, You get the idea I did a lot of in between settings this is a fun setting to play with.

The Spinning star in scene 2 is from page 259 what we did on class one time it is a classic tween. I copied and pasted the frames over and over to extend the time to the end of the scene. Background in Scene-5 is my shape tween, the gradient RGB 96 142 220, with a subtle change to the sky at sunset. I changed the sunset landscape with the gradient transform tool. Motion tweens: love dragons, painted dragon, fishy, sunset, ship. Some have slow easing.

IKs: The tropical tree forest and I adjusted the tint from the original nested symbol. I learned how to nest a IK mc after it is created through one of the tutorials.I drew the trunk of the tree with the pen tool, and painted the leaves with the brush then filled in the leaves with the fill bucket. I sprayed these trees in with the spray Brush tool. I unselected rotate symbol as trees usually grow up. I Set scale width 71% height 76%. After they were on stage I selected the brightness to a darker gradient. I used the free transform tool to adjust size and placement.Kept random scaling. Neat effect. My tree is a little too snappy on one side of the movement. I have a crab with just the claw moving. What a pain it was to try and get this thing to move any part. I gave up and accept just the claw....

Symbols: New symbols are many. The new stars, sun, treasure chest, fishy, love dragons, waves, dragon egg, a background.

Sound: Two egg buttons have sound. There is flapping wings sounds in several scenes. A sea sound in the last scene.

Buttons: Three new buttons. I used photo shop to get the images in one button. I changed the over and down and states in both egg buttons . The one with the dragon hatch-lings is a movie clip in the over state with alpha. The yellow egg button just changes the text i.e. what it has to say. The link button has text that change in all three states and color of text changes.

Action Script:

I used the same script we learned in class and I applied to project 5.

What worked well: The use of bitmaps for backgrounds with tracing and altering the image. Using Photoshop to clip out images are very useful as I did not have a lot of time to draw this time. I think when I have learned illustrator and PhotoShop better; drawing will be less tedious and more fun. The twinkling stars are graphics and a movie clip that I sprayed on the stage and allowed random scaling and rotation. I altered them with non sparkling stars, I could have used alpha for more depth on some to, next time. I sprayed them on though-out the time-line.

What was challenging: I set up key frames for sound but had a difficult time seeing it run exactly where I wanted it to end in the time-line. I edited them all slightly in SoundBooth clipped them where and how I wanted the sound to play. Scenes 2 though 4 have the wing sound of the dragons. The placement was correct however it ran though to scene 5. I worked around that a bit and at least got the sound off the final scene so I could get water sound where I wanted it without the flapping. I wanted to change my action script more (like how you did yours Eric) but no time left, maybe later.

Bonus: Getting the idea of flow throughout many scenes in the same time-line.